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Linguistics

Comparative Method of Language Acquisition Research

Pye Clifton

ISBN: PB: 9780226539614, ISBN: HB: 9780226481289, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 1 line drawing, 90 tables

The Mayan family of languages is ancient and unique. With their distinctive relational nouns, positionals, and complex grammatical voices, they are quite alien to English and have never been shown to be genetically related to other New World tongues....

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Literary Criticism

Crossing between Tradition and Modernity Essays in Commemoriation of Milena Dolezalova-Velingerova (1932-2012)

Denton Kirk A.

ISBN: PB: 9788024635132, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2017
318 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "Crossing Between Tradition and Modernity" presents thirteen essays written in honor of Milena Dolezelova-Velingerova (1932-2012), a member of the Prague School of Sinology and an importan...

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Performing Arts

Reference

Character, Scene, and Story New Tools from the Dramatic Writer's Companion

Dunne Will

ISBN: PB: 9780226393506, ISBN: HB: 9780226393476, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Will Dunne first brought the workshop experience down to the desk level with "The Dramatic Writer's Companion", offering practical exercises to help playwrights and screenwriters work through the problems that arise in developing their scripts. Now w...

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Europe

Cities Contested Urban Politics, Heritage, and Social Movements in Italy and West Germany in the 1970s

Baumeister Martin, Schott Dieter, Bonomo Bruno

ISBN: PB: 9783593506975, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, October 2017
420 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Historians discuss the 1970s as an era of deep transformations and even structural rupture in Western societies. For the first time, Cities Contested engages in this debate from the perspective of comparative urban history, examining the struggles in...

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Political Science

China's Hidden Children Abandonment, Adoption, and the Human Costs of the One-Child Policy

Kay Ann Johnson

ISBN: PB: 9780226529073, ISBN: HB: 9780226352510, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
224 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

In the thirty-five years since China instituted its One-Child Policy, 120,000 children – mostly girls – have left China through international adoption, including 85,000 to the United States. It's generally assumed that this diaspora is the result of...

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Cultural Studies

Culinarians Lives and Careers from the First Age of American Fine Dining

Shields David S.

ISBN: HB: 9780226406893, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
560 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 16 colour plates, 91 halftones, 10 line drawings

"He presided over Virginia's great political barbeques for the last half of the nineteenth century, taught the young Prince of Wales to crave mint juleps in 1859, catered to Virginia's mountain spas, and fed two generations of Richmond epicures with...

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Reference

Chicago Manual of Style 17th Edition

ISBN: HB: 9780226287058, University of Chicago Press, September 2017
1184 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones, 71 line drawings, 12 tables

Technologies may change, but the need for clear and accurate communication never goes out of style. That is why for more than one hundred years "The Chicago Manual of Style" has remained the definitive guide for anyone who works with words. In the...

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Poetry

Children with Enemies

Dischell Stuart

ISBN: PB: 9780226498591, University of Chicago Press, September 2017
72 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

There is a gentleness in the midst of savagery in Stuart Dischell's fifth full-length collection of poetry. These poems are ever aware of the momentary grace of the present and the fleeting histories that precede the instants of time. Part elegist, p...

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Christianity

Consuming Religion

Lofton Kathryn

ISBN: PB: 9780226482095, ISBN: HB: 9780226481937, University of Chicago Press, September 2017
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones

What are you drawn to like, to watch, or even to binge? What are you free to consume, and what do you become through consumption? These questions of desire and value, Kathryn Lofton argues, are questions for the study of religion. In eleven essays ex...

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Criminology

Law

Crime and Justice, Volume 46 Reinventing American Criminal Justice

Tonry Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780226489407, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
512 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Justice Futures: Reinventing American Criminal Justice" is the forty-sixth volume in the Crime and Justice series. Contributors include Francis Cullen and Daniel Mears on community corrections; Peter Reuter and Jonathan Caulkins on drug abuse policy...

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